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Taking a Family Approach to Health and Weight Loss
As a Mom if you put an emphasis on health it will motivate your children to eat better and be more active. Your involvement is crucial, and even better, get the entire family on board, engaged and focused on health. It changes the focus from losing weight to choosing the right foods and being active…
Is Your Child’s Summer Camp Safe???
Do you assume your childs camp is safe? Every summer we send our children off to what we think will be a fun and safe camp. Why do we assume the camp we chose for our kids will be safe? Have we asked the appropriate questions that would give us confidence in the camp? Most parents report being more concerned with what activities their children will be experiencing than the camps risk assessment for safety.
5 Tips To Help Your Preschooler Learn To Read
By kindergarten most schools recommend (or require) that children read for at least 20 minutes every night. With benefits like positive self esteem, increased vocabulary, enhanced creativity, increased attention spans, and higher cognitive abilities*, it is no wonder why teachers and schools are placing such an emphasis on reading. I was a learning specialist in…
Multitasking Mania: Six Tips to Make Time for What Matters
“To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.” – Jill Bolte Taylor Life is too crammed full these days. Even in our downtime, we are busy communicating. Texting, tweeting,…
Don’t Count on Millenials for a Work-life Revolution
The work-life conflict of my generationGeneration X, or those born between 1965 and 1980has been defined in large part by the unrealistic expectations that women, primarily, have placed on themselves to have it allcareer, marriage, kids, house in the suburbs, and more. Somewhere along the way, having it all morphed into doing it alla far cry from the liberation our feminist foremothers fought so hard for. But what about the next …